The Ming Dynasty started with caution

In order to prevent someone from taking advantage of the imperial decree and raising rats for money, the imperial court announced that the time limit was one month. After one month, the imperial court would not accept them.

After all, when there is a trade, there will be people who will be tempted by the profit.

If there is only one month, those who have ulterior motives will give up the idea as soon as possible.

The collected rats should be burned to ashes, and then the ashes should be buried under deep soil. The location of the burial should not be close to the water source...

From catching to crushing bones and scattering ashes, Yan Chengjin nodded, and there was no loophole.

Shuntian Prefecture,

Xiao Jing personally came to the Shuntian Prefecture government office to read the decree. When Liu Qing received the imperial decree, he was a little confused at first. Why did the court collect rats...

Then, they figured it out.

Wu Wenjing, the prefect of Shuntian Prefecture, had a trembling voice: "This is a different way to give money to refugees."

Liu Qing took a deep breath and sighed: "Your Majesty is a kind person."

Shuntian Prefecture opened its warehouses to provide relief food once a day, and refugees could get a bowl of porridge and a big steamed bun a day. It was so cold, it was useless!

Even if they had three meals a day, a bowl of porridge and a big steamed bun every day, they couldn't be full.

When refugees were forced into a corner, they would steal, rob, and kill people. More and more people would come to Shuntian Prefecture to report the case, but could he tell His Majesty about this? Your Majesty is busy with all kinds of affairs. How many prefectures are there in the two capitals and thirteen roads? Don't these prefectures have refugees? Is it only Shuntian Prefecture that needs relief?

It is a great gift for the court to open its warehouses to provide relief food. Even if there are more difficulties, he can only keep it in his heart.

But now it is different. The refugees will feel at ease if they have money in their pockets. No matter how difficult the days are, they will live with hope and will not steal, rob, kill or set fire.

This may seem like catching rats to eliminate troubles, but your majesty's deep intention is to reassure the people.

After Liu Qing understood the deep meaning of Emperor Hongzhi, he immediately ordered the clerks in the palace to quickly copy down the decree and then post it in various places in Shuntian Prefecture.

At the same time, he ordered people to send the personal letter out. Shuntian Prefecture also governs 24 prefectures and counties, and there are many refugees in each county.

The refugees who came to Shuntian Prefecture to receive relief food were a little confused when they heard the notice read by the yamen runners. They all surrounded Shuntian Prefecture, but no one went to catch rats.

One penny for a rat, where in the world is there such a good thing?

The waiter in the most famous Fugui Teahouse in the capital only earns 20 pennies a day.

"Sir, I have two..." At this moment, a sloppy old man took out two, which he was going to roast and eat.

"Two cents, here you go." The yamen runner gave him two copper coins.

Seeing that the old man really got the silver, the refugees' eyes lit up and they immediately dispersed. It was true! The court was really crazy. There was such a good thing. It was so cold that I didn't know how many rats had frozen to death. They could be picked up on the road. They picked up money, picked up money...

The refugees surrounding the list ran around. They knew where the rats were!

It was not an exaggeration to say that they ate and slept with the rats.

Then more people saw it, and it even spread throughout the capital. The capital launched a rat extermination campaign. Everyone stared at the ground when walking on the road, for fear of letting a rat crossing the street. That was all money!

Of course, some people didn't believe it. Where in the world could there be such a good thing? The government gave silver for catching rats?

When I came to Shuntian Prefecture and saw the yamen runners, I saw that the yamen runners were handing out silver, and I immediately believed it.

It was true!

On the first day, Shuntian Prefecture caught more than 3,000 of them. Liu Qing hired craftsmen to build a large stone kiln outside the city, burned them all into ashes, poured them into jars, and buried them deep in the soil.

Yan Chengjin ordered Wang Bushui to send several large boxes of copper coins to Shuntian Prefecture, which were converted into silver, about 5,000 taels, which could buy many mansions in the capital.

Although Your Majesty only said half, can Your Majesty really pay?

As for whether there would be any surplus, Yan Chengjin didn't consider it at all. Anyway, the Yan family didn't want copper coins. The wages paid to servants were all silver. What was the use of copper coins?

The extra copper coins were regarded as disaster relief for Shuntian Prefecture.

The ministers in the court suspected that Yan Chengjin was a fool. He actually paid so much silver in vain. The silver that Anding Earl earned from selling books was all wasted by this dog.

Before the disaster happened, no one knew how powerful it was.

When you see its power, it's too late.

Yan Chengjin seemed to be fine. He went to the Hanyuan Yamen to work happily every day and gave lectures in the Wenhua Hall.

Since he had the lecture notes of Cheng Minzheng and Wang Yue, Yan Chengjin no longer had to worry about the lectures.

Every time it was his turn to give lectures, Li Dongyang and the cabinet ministers looked forward to it.

"The one who has substance but no place is the universe; the one who has length but no origin is the universe."

"The universe is as vast and unreachable as the heaven and earth, and the universe is connected from beginning to end like the time, without beginning and end. Together, it is called the universe, which is enough to describe all things in the world."

Listen, what kind of cool knowledge is this?

Zhu Houzhao, on the other hand, would sleep every time the lecture started. Old Gao, that bastard, would show off his knowledge in front of him all day long, but he was not allowed to ask questions.

This really pissed me off.

Zhu Houzhao simply turned a blind eye to the lecture and fell asleep as soon as Yan Chengjin started speaking. Although he seemed to be sitting upright, he had actually already fallen asleep.

Li Dongyang and others were so engrossed in listening that they had no time to care about him.

Finally, when the lecture ended and Lao Gao's tireless and annoying voice disappeared, Zhu Houzhao woke up automatically.

Zhu Houzhao said with a smile: "Lao Gao, today I beat up that bastard Zhang Yong. Zhang Yong said that you paid money to Shuntian Prefecture to catch rats. I thought, isn't that a big fool? Your talent is only a little bit worse than mine, how could you do such a stupid thing like a pig? This is slander. I hate others slandering me the most. My father also slandered me like this!"

"Your Highness, this is true." Yan Chengjin told frankly.

Zhu Houzhao blinked his eyes, unhappy, and whispered: "Lao Gao, you are at least half of my master, give me some face, if you tell others, I will be ashamed to see people."

Yan Chengjin said with deep approval: "Your Highness, you don't know the deep meaning of my action. I pity the refugees in Shuntian Prefecture. They are hungry and have no food to eat. Catching mice is just an excuse to give silver. If I give silver for free, it would be... too high-profile."

Zhu Houzhao suddenly realized, his eyes lit up, and he immediately felt that Yan Chengjin was much taller. He smiled and said: "I knew you were smart, and you even gave silver so beautifully! Lao Gao, you promised to help me find warriors, where are my warriors?"

Warriors?

Yan Chengjin recalled carefully that every frame of the scene with Zhu Houzhao seemed to have fooled Zhu Houzhao to find warriors...

Yan Chengjin snorted coldly: "I only said that Your Highness would be famous as a wise king if he found seven warriors. When will I help Your Highness find them?"

Seven?

Zhu Houzhao stared at him with his eyes and sneered: "Lao Gao, you told me last time that there were six warriors. How come there is one more?"

Sweat broke out on Yan Chengjin's forehead. He fell into deep thought and replayed his memory back to the scene of fooling Zhu Houzhao. It seemed that there were six...

How to make it up? Waiting online and very anxious...

Zhu Houzhao showed a happy face and came over slyly: "I knew there were seven! The other one is you!"

"…………" Yan Chengjin.

Yan Chengjin thought for a while and fooled seriously: "Your Highness, don't talk nonsense. There have always been only six warriors. One more will not work."

Who knew that Zhu Houzhao looked at him with disbelief.

This bastard is getting harder and harder to fool...

Yan Chengjin pondered carefully: "In fact, the second warrior has already appeared, he is...Changning Bo."

Zhu Houzhao was angry, pinched Yan Chengjin's neck and said: "I treat you as a brother, why do you always treat me as a fool?"

"Your Highness... Stop... Please listen to me slowly... Tell me..."